Annette Estes

Biographic Data

ID5761378
NAMEAnnette Estes
GIVEN NAMESAnnette
FAMILY NAMEEstes
SIGNATUREESTES A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
ORCID0000-0003-2687-4155
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS20
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Capturing attitudes towards research and data sharing in down syndrome (CARDS-DS)

    Open AccessAkhil Menon, Ankita A Menon et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2026

    Open science initiatives aim to accelerate research through data sharing. While prior research has explored public attitudes toward genomic data sharing, perspectives on sharing other data types, such as neuroimaging data, remain largely unexplored. To address this gap, we developed the CARDS-DS (Capturing Attitudes toward Research and Data Sharing in Down Syndrome) questionnaire, a novel survey designed to assess parental attitudes toward open-a…

  • Examining variability in Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention strategy use in caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorders

    Open AccessHallie R Brown, Hallie Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2025

    BACKGROUND: Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBIs) for young children with autism spectrum disorder commonly involve caregiver-mediated approaches. However, to date, there is limited research on how caregivers' skills change, and, in turn, impact child outcomes. METHODS: We evaluated the NDBI strategy use of 191 caregivers prior to participation in NDBIs (or control groups) across multiple randomized controlled trials, using …

  • Toward a more comprehensive autism assessment

    Open AccessSara Woods, Sara Eileen O'Neil Woods et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    OPINION article Front. Psychiatry, 06 October 2023Sec. Autism Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1264516

  • Are early social communication skills a harbinger for language development in infants later diagnosed autistic?—A longitudinal study using a standardized social communication assessment

    Open AccessShruthi Ravi, Allison Bradshaw et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2022

    The early emergence of social communication challenges and their impact on language in infants later diagnosed with autism has sparked many early intervention programs that target social communication skills. While research has consistently shown lower scores on social communication assessments in the first year of life, there is limited research at 12-months exploring associations between different dimensions of social communication and later la…

  • Infant vocalizing and phenotypic outcomes in autism

    Open AccessSamantha Plate, Lisa Yankowitz et al.ARTICLEChild Development2022

    Infant vocalizations are early-emerging communicative markers shown to be atypical in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but few longitudinal, prospective studies exist. In this study, 23,850 infant vocalizations from infants at low (LR)- and high (HR)-risk for ASD (HR-ASD = 23, female = 3; HR-Neg = 35, female = 13; LR = 32, female = 10; 80% White; collected from 2007 to 2017 near Philadelphia) were analyzed at 6, 12, and 24 months. At 12 months, HR…

  • Examining the factor structure and discriminative utility of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire–Revised in infant siblings of autistic children

    Open AccessSooyeon Sung, Angela Fenoglio et al.ARTICLEChild Development2022

    Using the Infant Behavior Questionnaire–Revised in a longitudinal sample of infant siblings of autistic children (HR; n = 427, 171 female, 83.4% White) and a comparison group of low-risk controls (LR, n = 200, 86 female, 81.5% White), collected between 2007 and 2017, this study identified an invariant factor structure of temperament traits across groups at 6 and 12 months. Second, after partitioning the groups by familial risk and diagnostic outc…

  • On-Time Autism Intervention”

    Open AccessAshley Penney, Ashley M Penney et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    It is well-documented that autism can be reliably diagnosed by age two and that early signs emerge most often between 18 and 24 months. However, despite the increased awareness and focus on early diagnosis, the average age of diagnosis is over 4 years old; even later for Black children and those who are Medicaid-eligible. In this paper, we will propose a framework for accurate and accelerated autism diagnosis for children before age three. The pr…

  • Diagnostic shifts in autism spectrum disorder can be linked to the fuzzy nature of the diagnostic boundary

    Open AccessBirkan Tunç, Juhi Pandey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2021

    BACKGROUND: Diagnostic shifts at early ages may provide invaluable insights into the nature of separation between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typical development. Recent conceptualizations of ASD suggest the condition is only fuzzily separated from non-ASD, with intermediate cases between the two. These intermediate cases may shift along a transition region over time, leading to apparent instability of diagnosis. METHODS: We used a cohort …

  • The Developmental Sequence and Relations Between Gesture and Spoken Language in Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Open AccessMeagan R Talbott, Gregory S Young et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    In typical development, gestures precede and predict language development. This study examines the developmental sequence of expressive communication and relations between specific gestural and language milestones in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who demonstrate marked difficulty with gesture production and language. Communication skills across five stages (gestures, word approximations, first words, gesture-word combinations, and…

  • Parenting stress and psychological functioning among mothers of preschool children with autism and developmental delay

    Open AccessAnnette Estes, Jeffrey Munson et al.ARTICLEAutism2009

    Parents of children with developmental disabilities, particularly autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), are at risk for high levels of distress. The factors contributing to this are unclear. This study investigated how child characteristics influence maternal parenting stress and psychological distress. Participants consisted of mothers and developmental-age matched preschool-aged children with ASD ( N = 51) and developmental delay without autism (DD…

  • Early Social Attention Impairments in Autism

    Géraldine Dawson, Karen Toth et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2004Cited by: 20References: 42

    This study investigated social attention impairments in autism (social orienting, joint attention, and attention to another's distress) and their relations to language ability. Three- to four-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 72), 3- to 4-year-old developmentally delayed children (n = 34), and 12- to 46-month-old typically developing children (n = 39), matched on mental age, were compared on measures of social orienting, j…